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Cancel Christmas! by tompudding

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made by tompudding for LD25 (COMPO)
Hack into Santa's Grotto and delete the Naughty List!

Featuring realistic hacker shenanigans and literally seconds of voice acting!

Linux users can run the source directly if they have the packages python-pygame,python-opengl and python-numpy

Edit: It has been pointed out to me that some of the puzzles are frustatingly hard. I put a walkthrough up at https://raw.github.com/tompudding/cancelchristmas/master/walkthrough.txt if you are rubbish and want to get the answers given to you :)

Edit2: Link replaced with a bug-fixed version now that I know typo-fixes are allowed. I removed a debug statement that printed the correct pin to the console for the buffer overflow stage.

Edit3: Updated to fix a crash-bug and a typo-fix to allow different keyboard layouts to use it

Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/bc2hied0bnjg4qm/cancelchristmas_1.03_win32.zip
Linux https://github.com/tompudding/cancelchristmas/archive/master.zip
Source https://github.com/tompudding/cancelchristmas
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=12467

Ratings

Coolness 71% 3
Overall 3.57 86
Audio 3.40 69
Fun 3.46 94
Graphics 2.94 366
Humor 3.26 128
Innovation 4.16 12
Mood 3.18 176
Theme 3.43 271

Feedback

Hapistorique
17. Dec 2012 · 07:01 UTC
Nice game ! The hero is lacking animations, but the voice acting is the best thing I heard in 2012 ! :p
ParaPup
17. Dec 2012 · 15:36 UTC
Nice this was different and as Hapistorique said lacked the animation.
Ramuh
17. Dec 2012 · 18:54 UTC
Seems nice. But I couldn't figure out where to go or what to do
Somfunambulist
17. Dec 2012 · 18:56 UTC
Ingenious gameplay, very difficult.
SirJson
17. Dec 2012 · 19:13 UTC
These puzzles are nice and the first game I found with voice acting :D
Edocentrique
17. Dec 2012 · 19:14 UTC
Funny hacking skills ! Also, i laughed hearing voices :D
angela
17. Dec 2012 · 23:02 UTC
I don't think the puzzles are working for me. I got through the first one, but couldn't get the others. I went to your site and entered the answers from the walkthrough, but still got access denied. It could TOTALLY be user error though. This was challenging and fun to play. Props.
pillbrain
17. Dec 2012 · 23:23 UTC
Love it, but it really is hard, nice job Tom :P
kevincorrigan
17. Dec 2012 · 23:38 UTC
I like this one its difficult but really quite fun, good job.
🎤 tompudding
17. Dec 2012 · 23:38 UTC
I'm beginning to think I might have slightly misjudged the difficulty of this game :(
BipolarMike
17. Dec 2012 · 23:42 UTC
I really enjoyed this one!! Well done sir, well done!
dwrensha
17. Dec 2012 · 23:59 UTC
I love anything with in-game code. This was great.
fussycashew
18. Dec 2012 · 00:29 UTC
Pretty awesome, I got stuck pretty early though. Had to get some help :P
zenmumbler
18. Dec 2012 · 00:41 UTC
Got the first 4 letters and just brute-forced the last one and yay it worked! Cool idea, nice execution. Music indeed got annoying quickly, thanks for the off switch, nice voice samples.
zenmumbler
18. Dec 2012 · 00:46 UTC
Also, re: your walkthrough. To get answer 2 you can just enter the following in any browser console window and get the answer instantly, no math skills required! Brute force FTW!

for(var i=0; i<9999; ++i) { if (((i*77)+1435)%385600==124173) console.info(i); }
Slushy
18. Dec 2012 · 11:57 UTC
Very cool!
shaneshanekavanagh
18. Dec 2012 · 16:54 UTC
Cannot get that tune out of my head.
Udrian
19. Dec 2012 · 08:38 UTC
Seems like a nice entry, really like the voice acting ;P.. Though it is very hard to solve the puzzles because I have a different keyboard layout than the one in the game so I don't know where the keys are supposed to be! xP
BeigeBox
19. Dec 2012 · 19:39 UTC
Wish there was a Mac port... OH WAIT, THERE IS!

Ported to support Mac OSX 10.7+. No dependencies needed, just unzip and run the app.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k1uuigubc7jh8wo/Cancel%20Christmas%20Mac%2010.7%20and%20up.zip
Logun
20. Dec 2012 · 09:52 UTC
I don't know if I am the only one with this problem, but your .zip have problems on my PC. Can't play :'(
Rex Peppers
20. Dec 2012 · 23:44 UTC
Can't play windows/linux games. :-(
hnjslater
22. Dec 2012 · 15:54 UTC
Brilliant game. Nice and hard.
pl0xz0rz
28. Dec 2012 · 13:19 UTC
Good puzzles and audio!
Cosmologicon
06. Jan 2013 · 22:02 UTC
I had a lot of fun with this, but yeah it's going to be extremely difficult for people with no hacking background. I got to try my first-ever SQL injection attack! (It didn't work, but oh well.) The terminal interface could have used a bit of work. A few times I found my cursor in a weird place overwriting previous attempts. It made it hard to work with. I would also have liked to have the terminal and the code view side-by-side.
dj_pale
07. Jan 2013 · 22:44 UTC
Nice (and hard!). Could have used some hint mechanism ;)
SuperDisk
07. Jan 2013 · 22:44 UTC
I, too, brute forced the Modulo thing.
The SQL attack didn't work for me. I tried multiple times your walkthrough for that problem, but still no dice, with the response:

Unknown character "'"
I think this is the ' located in your original SQL query, so I couldn't change it :(
RawBits
07. Jan 2013 · 23:18 UTC
The idea is good and the goal is alluring.

I couldn't do anything than open the front door and listen to Santa. No clue what to do! I saw that there is a walkthrough but this game isn't that good to make me read...
Cryovat
07. Jan 2013 · 23:30 UTC
One of the C quizzes was a bit too much for my tired and flu.ridden brain to handle, but definitely coming back to this one when my head is a bit clearer.

This is probably the most original take I've seen on the theme. The puzzles I did get were great brainteasers, and I was impressed by how authentic the SQL bit felt.

I also enjoyed the music. Great work! :)